LINEAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lineage mean? 

• LINEAGE (noun)
  The noun LINEAGE has 5 senses:

1. the descendants of one individual

2. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

3. the number of lines in a piece of printed material

4. a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

5. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

  Familiarity information: LINEAGE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINEAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The descendants of one individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock

Context example:

his entire lineage has been warriors

Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):

family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lineage"):

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)

side (a family line of descent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage

Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):

family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lineage"):

bilateral descent (line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family)

unilateral descent (line of descent traced through one side of the family)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The number of lines in a piece of printed material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

linage; lineage

Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):

number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

linage; lineage

Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):

charge per unit; rate (amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage

Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):

hereditary pattern; inheritance ((genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents)

Attribute:

purebred (bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain)

crossbred (bred from parents of different varieties or species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lineage"):

descent; extraction; origin (properties attributable to your ancestry)

bloodline; pedigree (ancestry of a purebred animal)

 Context examples 

CD19 antigen is a B-cell specific cell surface antigen, which is expressed in all B-cell lineage malignancies and normal B-cells.

(Anti-CD19-CAR FMC63-28Z Retroviral Vector-transduced Allogeneic T-lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

The CD20 antigen, a non-glycosylated cell surface phosphoprotein, is a B-cell specific cell surface antigen expressed in B-cell lineage malignancies.

(Anti-CD20-CAR-CD3zeta-4-1BB-expressing Autologous T-lymphocyte Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

FLT3 (FLK2), a class III tyrosine kinase receptor, is overexpressed or mutated in most B lineage and acute myeloid leukemias (AML).

(Multikinase Inhibitor 4SC-203, NCI Thesaurus)

Osteoclasts are derived through the fusion of cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage.

(Anti-M-CSF Monoclonal Antibody MCS110, NCI Thesaurus)

CD19 is a B-cell specific membrane antigen that is widely expressed during B-cell development and in all B-cell lineage malignancies.

(Anti-CD19 Monoclonal Antibody DI-B4, NCI Thesaurus)

Nonspecific esterase stains with acetate substrate and is mainly used in the determination of lineage in acute myelogenous leukemia.

(Alpha Naphthyl Acetate Esterase Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Acute myeloid leukemia in which 80% or more of the leukemic cells are of monocytic lineage, including monoblasts, promonocytes, and monocytes.

(Acute Monoblastic and Monocytic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients present with a myeloproliferative neoplasm, acute myeloid leukemia, lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukemia of T or B-cell lineage, or acute leukemia of mixed phenotype.

(Myeloid and Lymphoid Neoplasms with FGFR1 Rearrangement, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute myeloid leukemia (AML) showing maturation in the neutrophil lineage.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22); RUNX1-RUNX1T1, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

CD19 antigen is a B-cell specific cell surface antigen expressed in all B-cell lineage malignancies.

(Allogeneic CD19-specific CAR-modified CD8 Plus Central Memory-derived Virus-specific T Cells, NCI Thesaurus)